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About Upgrade Environments

Upgrades: All upgrades.

Environments: All environments.

The Upgrade Guide for DB2 UDB for z/OS describes how to upgrade two environments:

  • Development environment
  • Production environment

Development Environment

A development environment contains the following elements:

  • Siebel Server
  • Web server and Siebel Web Server Extension
  • Siebel Gateway Name Server
  • Siebel Database Server files installed on a Siebel Server
  • RDBMS server and Siebel Database
  • Siebel Tools installed on workstations running a supported Windows environment. This includes the local database running on developers' Mobile Web Clients.
  • Siebel applications and test data required to verify the basic function of newly compiled SRF files.

The development environment is where developers use Siebel Tools to customize Siebel applications. The development environment upgrade merges these customizations with the new release. The merged repository and schema definitions become inputs to the production upgrade.

Production Environment

The production environment is your live business environment, where your internal and external users interact with applications and generate actual business data. The production environment includes all your Siebel Enterprises worldwide.

The upgrade process assumes all production environment databases are completely separate from the development environment databases.

Siebel Systems provides these tools to help you transition from development to production:

  • Siebel Application Deployment Manager (ADM). This application migrates administrative data such as lists of values (LOVs) from the development environment to the production environment. For details, see Going Live with Siebel eBusiness Applications.
  • Siebel Packager. This application creates installation packages for use by Siebel Mobile or Developer Web Client. For details, see Going Live with Siebel eBusiness Applications.
  • Siebel Anywhere. This application builds distribution kits for remote users. For details, see Siebel Anywhere Administration Guide.

Mapping Your Environments

You may have more or fewer environments than those described above. Table 6 gives recommendations for mapping your environments to the ones used in the Upgrade Guide for DB2 UDB for z/OS.

Table 6. Mapping Your Environments to Siebel Upgrade Processes
Environment Description
Recommended Upgrade

The environment has the following characteristics:

  • It is used primarily for development with Siebel Tools.
  • The Siebel Database is a subset of your production database.
  • The environment is not used for technical support or training. Developers are usually installed as Mobile Web Clients.

Development environment upgrade.

The environment is used for live business transactions by both local and remote users.

Production environment upgrade.
    
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